ALMOST one year on from making the life-changing decision to undergo amputation surgery, Milford woman Nikki Bradley is on the cusp of another journey. A teenage survivor of rare bone disease Ewings Sarcoma, Nikki is an adaptive adventurer and motivational speaker telling her own cancer story to help others. With having faced various issues with her […]
Donegal Rose caught up in a Twitter storm
The Donegal Rose of Tralee has found herself in the middle of a Twitter storm. On Monday evening she appeared in the Dome to be interviewed by the host Dáithí Ó Sé and as a party piece recited a poem. However poems were banned by the competition organisers in 2016, leading to a mini tornado […]
Step into the past on a free guided tour of Donegal Town
STEP back in time this Saturday with a free guided tour of the history and heritage of Donegal Town. To celebrate National Heritage Week, Niamh Coughlan, founder of Donegal Town Walking Tours is offering a free guided tour of Donegal Town on Saturday at 12pm. Niamh always had an interest in tourism and history. Advertisement […]
Ramelton friends team up to help spread joy and positivity
Two Ramelton businesses have teamed up together in the mission to spark a bit of joy and positivity into other people’s lives. Laura Buchanan Designs and Laura Ferguson from Little Grey Ceramics have combined their ideas to create three mugs paired with matching plates that have some words of positivity printed on them. Their aim […]
Convoy man chosen as new lead in Lord of the Dance
Convoy man, Conor Rodgers has been selected as the new lead in Michael Flatley’s Lord of The Dance. Conor, who has been Irish dancing from the age of three, began dancing professionally after winning the World Irish Dancing Championships in 2019. Conor’s training began once he was selected to be part of the Lord of […]
Letterkenny Babies’ celebrates eighth birthday
WHEN Louise Flanagan set up ‘Letterkenny Babies’ on Facebook to keep in touch with new mums she met after the birth of her first child, little could she have predicted its runaway success, and that she would meet two best friends. From an initial handful of ‘likes’, the voluntary page celebrated its eighth birthday this […]
Newtowncunningham Primary Care Centre to be fully functional from Monday
The new Newtowncunningham Primary Care Centre will be fully functional from Monday, August 8, 2022. Located at Main Street, Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal, F93 RTF6, the new Primary Care Centre will offer a wide range of services. These include GP Services, Public Health Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. It also has capacity to accommodate visiting clinics for […]
‘Why the silence on key report into hospital flooding?’
FRUSTRATIONS are mounting over the continued absence of the publication of a report into flooding at Letterkenny’s hospital. A state of emergency had been declared following flooding in July 2013, which caused more than €25 million of damage at the hospital when a local drain burst its banks. The facility’s emergency, radiology, outpatient, medical records […]
Sharp rise in number of complaints against gardai
THERE has been an 84 per cent rise in the number of complaints made by the public about members of An Garda Siochána in Donegal. That’s according to the Garda Siochána’s Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) annual report for 2020, which reveals 105 allegations were made about gardaí in Donegal and referred to GSOC. That’s significantly up […]
Meeting to discuss removal of angiogram service
MUCH anger remains locally in the wake of confirmation that the angiogram service is to be withdrawn from Letterkenny University Hospital in May. A special meeting to discuss the future of cardiology services at LUH has been called for by Councillor Ciaran Brogan. He raised his concerns at this week’s committee meeting of the HSE’s […]